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Depleted Uranium

• What is Depleted Uranium and what are depleted uranium weapons?

  27 September 2006 - ICBUW

• Watch the Unknown Terror of DU on Google Videos

  Two Japanese photo-journalists, Naomi Toyoda and Hitoshi Shimizu, made
  this English-language video-documentary titled Hidden Terror of DU featuring footage and research from 2003 and 2004 in Iraq. Running time 20mins, language: English.

  5 September 2007 - ICBUW

• FACTSHEET: Uranium enrichment By Lizzy Bloem

  In nature there are in general two forms, or isotopes, of uranium (U). The vast amount, 99.3%, is uranium 238 (U238). A tiny amount, 0.7%, is uranium 235 (U235).
  

  29 September 2006 - ICBUW

• FACTSHEET: From yellowcake to hex By Lizzy Bloem

  Uranium leaves the mill as the concentrate yellowcake (U3O8). Yellowcake needs further treatment to be used as reactor fuel.

  29 September 2006 - ICBUW

• FACTSHEET: Uranium mining and milling By Lizzy Bloem

  Uranium is used mainly to fuel nuclear reactors. In 2004, 440 reactors generate around 16% of the world's electricity. For this, huge amounts of rock are mined and extracted. For example, a 1300-megawatt reactor consumes around 33 tons of uranium a year. To produce this amount of uranium, about 440,000 tons of uranium ore have to be processed.
  

  29 September 2006 - ICBUW

• FACTSHEET: Mineral Uranium By Lizzy Bloem

  Uranium in nature is found in more than 200 different minerals. Deep in the ground these minerals have dull black, grey or brown colours. But when the minerals are at the surface and weathered, they appear to be bright yellow, orange or green. Uranium minerals are probably more beautiful than the minerals of any other element.
  

  29 September 2006 - ICBUW

• FACTSHEET: The Abrams Tank By Lizzy Bloem

  Uranium weapons were used for the first time in combat during the 1991 Gulf War. Next to the M60, the Abrams tank (M1 and M1A1) was the first US tank to shoot uranium munitions in combat.

  29 September 2006 - ICBUW

• FACTSHEET: The A10 Warthog By Lizzy Bloem

  The A-10 'Warthog' ground attack plane is accountable for most of the uranium munitions fired in Iraq.

  29 September 2006 - ICBUW

• FACTSHEET: Uranium Weapons By Lizzy Bloem

  Depleted uranium is used in a variety of military applications, including uranium weapons, such as munitions and landmines but also in armoured military vehicles.
  

  29 September 2006 - ICBUW

• FACTSHEET: Fabrication and assembly of DU weaponry By Lizzy Bloem

  Fabrication and assembly plants work up depleted uranium derby, a metal mass, into products. Depleted uranium (DU) metal is especially used because of its density.

  29 September 2006 - ICBUW